slimness

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Today, no colonial weather vane or goffering iron fails to find its collectors, and the productions of traveling limners evoke an enthusiasm that might once have seemed excessive for Gainsborough.

From Time Magazine Archive

In time, the limners became the itinerant painters who criss-crossed the continent by foot, horseback and wagon well into the 19th century, painting family portraits in return for food and temporary lodging.

From Time Magazine Archive

This black hood was dignified in allegorical literature as "the venerable hood," and was ever chosen by limners to cover the head of any woman of age or dignity who was to be depicted.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

But hereafter will be other plays, of wild men and their feasting in the woods in the Golden Age of the world; and that is done by the scribes and the limners.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

As limners they excelled, and a keen sense of humour is evinced in many of their paintings.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)